KK Kožuv () is a

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club based in

Gevgelija Gevgelija (; ) is a town with a population of 15,685 located in the very southeast of North Macedonia along the banks of the Vardar River, situated at the country's main border with Greece (Bogorodica-Evzoni), the point which links the motorway f ...

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. They currently play in the

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History

The club was founded in 1955. Kozhuv's biggest success came in 2013, they made the

playoff final but ended up losing against

MZT Skopje Aerodrom MZT Skopje Aerodrom () is a basketball club based in Skopje, North Macedonia. The club competes in the Macedonian League and ABA League. The club's home ground is Jane Sandanski Arena, but due to small capacity, the matches in the ABA League an ...

. Kozhuv reached the Macedonian Cup Final in 2015. They lost the final match against the heavy-weight Rabotnichki 66-74 .Kozhuv also competed in BIBL league for 6 seasons. They reached the 3rd place twice in seasons 2015 and 2016. Since its second top-flight season in 2012, the team from the border town has also participated in the supranational Balkan League, a position it has consistently held ever since. After two rather moderately successful campaigns, it remained undefeated in the 2014/15 preliminary round and qualified directly for the semifinals in the second group stage, losing to eventual champions KB Sigal Prishtina on aggregate. In the following Balkan League season, the team lost to KK Mornar Bar in the 2016 semifinals. In the season 2019-20 KK Blokotehna fused in KK Kozhuv. All the players joined Kozhuv at this season. :As Blokotehna Gevgelija in the season 2017/2018 they played in the semifinals with Levski Lukoil finishing 4th.Next season in 2019, Blokotehna won BIBL League trophy beating Teuta in the Final. In season 2018/19 they were hosts of the domestic cup and they played in the Final against Rabotnicki. They made it to the semi-finals in the domestic Championship play-off.

BIBL League Seasons

* 2013: (4-4) 7th * 2014: (5-11) 9th * 2015: (13-3) 3rd Bronze medal with cup

* 2016: (6-8) 3rd Bronze medal with cup

* 2017: (9-9) 5th * 2018: (10-4) 4th * 2019: (11-3) Gold medal with cup

Honours

Domestic Achievements 20px

* Macedonian League Finalist - 2013 Silver medal with cup

* Macedonian Cup Finalist - 2015 Silver medal with cup

:European

* BIBL Champions 2019

International Achievements

* Mavroskoufia Basketball Tournament - 2013, 2014

Current roster

Depth chart

Former players

* Dimitar Karadzovski * Pero Blazevski * Kiril Pavlovski * Darko Radulović * Zlatko Gocevski *

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* Igor Penov *

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* Kiril Toshev * Ranko Mamuzić * Nikola Karakolev * Daniel Nacevski * Ivica Dimcevski * Martin Shalev * Bojan Krstevski *

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* Boban Stajic * Predrag Pajic * Jetmir Zeqiri * Dimitar Mirakovski * Vojče Lefkoski * Marko Simonovski *

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Igor Mijajlović Igor Mijajlović (; born July 3, 1984) is a retired Serbian professional basketball player. He is in height and plays at the point guard and shooting guard positions. Career achievements * KK MZT Skopje Aerodrom, KK MZT Skopje **Macedonian Firs ...

* Vladimir Filipović * Milivoje Mijović * Filip Šepa * Slobodan Božović * Slobodan Dunđerski * Milan Janjušević *

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* Vladimir Ivelja * Nikola Djurasović * Uros Lukovic * Draško Albijanić *

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* Kenyon McNeail * Larry Hall * Jason Carter * Austin Dufault * Brandon Penn *

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References

External links

Team info at MKF
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Eurobasket.com KK Kozuv Page

Team info at BalkanLeague
Basketball teams in North Macedonia Gevgelija Municipality {{RMacedonia-basketball-team-stub